Started a new job out here
in beautiful Hudson New York on top of a mountain with deer and squirrels
pleasantly interrupting the day as they gaze on our work constructing a
Water Treatment plant with as the General contractor. The crane I am operating is a
125 ton FMC link Belt with a 110 ft. boom and we are presently completing
the first level of the building and getting ready to pour the floor of the
ground level.

The carpenters I am working
with are out of the Newburgh local 19 and 324 and Ironworkers from Interstate
Reinforcement and Laborers Local 1000, all of
whom are doing a great job and are great workers. Never a dull moment on
this jobsite as these fellows are trying hard to get work completed before
the cold weather sets in. Also Clifford Gray is doing the electrical work.

perJett industries

Register-Star

Water Treatment plant on schedule

by
Bob Mitchell

HUDSON

The $10
million water treatment plant on Rossman Avenue is on schedule Hudson
Department of Public Works Superintendent Charles Butterworth told the
Common Council DPW Committee on Tuesday. When the project got under way at
the end of September 2003, Mayor Richard Scalera said the project would
take an estimated 500 days.

But a bad
winter shut down the project for several months.

Scalera said
Tuesday that the estimated completion date is set for the fall of 2005.

The state
kicked in $2 million for the project and the city is borrowing the $8
million balance over 30 years at O percent interest.

is the general contractor. Scalera has called the company a leader in the
field of firms specializing in water treatment plants.

The
state mandated replacement water filtration plant will have a 2.5 million
gallon holding tank.

The city gets
its water from the Churchtown Reservoir in Taghkanic and stores it in the
clear/surface well at the top of Rossman Avenue.

The state has
been after the city for sometime to change the system.

The city's
water supply is gravity fed all the way from Churchtown.

A. Colarusso
and Son is chipping in $200,000 a year in a 30 year lease town deal
between the city and Colarusso, letting the company mine rock on 339
acres on Newman Road contiguous with property that contains the city's
backup water supply.